Seiler, Roland (25 July 2013). Efficient team actions: Outline of a theory of teams in sport. Abstracts of the ISSP 13th World Congress of Sport Psychology, p. 61. Beijing: ISSP / Beijing Sport University
So far, social psychology in sport has preliminary focused on team cohesion, and many studies and meta analyses tried to demonstrate a relation between cohesiveness of a team and it's performance. How a team really co-operates and how the individual actions are integrated towards a team action is a question that has received relatively little attention in research. This may, at least in part, be due to a lack of a theoretical framework for collective actions, a dearth that has only recently begun to challenge sport psychologists. In this presentation a framework for a comprehensive theory of teams in sport is outlined and its potential to integrate the following presentations is put up for discussion.
Based on a model developed by von Cranach, Ochsenbein and Valach (1986), teams are information processing organisms, and team actions need to be investigated on two levels: the individual team member and the group as an entity. Elements to be considered are the task, the social structure, the information processing structure and the execution structure. Obviously, different task require different social structures, communication and co-ordination.
From a cognitivist point of view, internal representations (or mental models) guide the behaviour mainly in situations requiring quick reactions and adaptations, were deliberate or contingency planning are difficult. In sport teams, the collective representation contains the elements of the team situation, that is team task and team members, and of the team processes, that is communication and co-operation. Different meta-perspectives may be distinguished and bear a potential to explain the actions of efficient teams.
Cranach, M. von, Ochsenbein, G., & Valach, L. (1986).The group as a self-active system: Outline of a theory of group action. European Journal of Social Psychology, 16, 193-229.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Abstract) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW) 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW) > Sport Science II [discontinued] |
UniBE Contributor: |
Seiler, Roland |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 700 Arts > 790 Sports, games & entertainment |
Publisher: |
ISSP / Beijing Sport University |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Roland Seiler |
Date Deposited: |
12 Mar 2014 15:08 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:24 |
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Electronic Version (CD ROM) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Team Action, Internal Representation, Team Mental Model, Theoretical Framework |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/41243 |
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